Clarity AP™ models an existing storage/IT ecosystem by leveraging TwinStrata's catalog of industry components that includes:

• Disk storage (internal, external, cloud/online) and virtual tape libraries from a variety of vendors
• Sites by availability attributes (Tier 1 - Tier 4)
• Applications (email, OLTP, file services, etc)
• Application clustering and network hosting
• Software policies and processes (local/remote data copies, backups, deduplication, vaulting, etc)

Clarity AP™ then performs a Bayesian analysis across infrastructure components and policies to model both the individual component failure probabilities and well as the overall system failure probability. Clarity AP converts this mathematical analysis into a risk profile and a results summary of business metrics including:

• capital and operating expenses
• expected annual costs of downtime and data loss
• ability to meet recovery time and recovery point objectives

Planning changes to existing configurations becomes a drag-and-drop process, instantly showing the impact across all cost metrics. The built-in comparison screen simplifies the process of comparing key cost metrics across existing and proposed configurations.

By comparing the business metrics between different scenarios and configurations, Clarity AP™ effectively takes the guesswork out of choosing the best DR solution that most effectively meets business needs.